Technology

Well when you think about it this is just another form of control over businesses. That’s equally authoritarian.

The EU is a complex organization with different power poles and a variety of different interests. Add to that members of parliament do not always understand everything they vote for. And yes: you get bad things, nonsensical rules, but also good things.

Overall, I would say it's positive, but when it's bad it can be brutal.

Edit: I forgot to mention lobbying! Brussels is full of lobbyists!

Seriously, talk about major whiplash with how they do things lmao

All those people in Brussels are out of touch. They live in their own world.

Every program is open source

Those aren’t loopholes though, they’re part of the legislation. Phone makers don’t need to “bullshit” their way out of anything if they meet the criteria, which almost every mobile phone released these days does - making the regulation pretty pointless lol

Flexible / folding displays are not covered

So that's why after almost a decade, only now Apple is ready to launch their foldable

Fitness trackers would be hard to make them easy repairable, when most of them is waterproof

Having those rules is much better than not having them. Also, IP rating is not enough, batteries also need to have sufficient load cycles. So if it forces them to use only long life batteries that reduces the need for battery repkacements and is already something.

Also software... I would love to have regulations that make it clear that the root of trust on all devices need to start by the owner of the device, not by the vendor... That would allow the end users to repair the software on their devices... Replacing it with whatever else they want. Next would be to provide hardware documentation to the owners to program their own devices... I don't expect that to happen, but I can dream.

Well it's a start.

Ah fuck boys, we enacted this landmark repairability legislation for daily use machines, but forgot to include video games.

For real though do you mean game consoles, the software?

Games industry is somehow infinitely more corrupt.

I can go one further, if you ever want to do a warrenty claim with coffeemate, regardless of how small, they require you to cut the power cord.

I bought a cheap coffeemate coffee maker, and the anti-splash valve that prevents it from brewing fell off, and I lost the o-ring that was part of it as a result.

After 3 different contact points with coffee mate as their public listed email only warranty contact was incorrect and then was bounced to a couple more emails, they agreed it was a manufacturer problem, and that it was covered, but they wanted me to cut the power cord and show proof that the unit was no longer functional, because instead of sending me a 10¢ if that o ring, they wanted me to destroy a other than that one comp a perfectly functional unit, so they could send a whole new unit in it's place.

I bought a cheap oring set on amazon, so now I have more than I would ever need of orings but, at least it's less wasteful.